Eraserhead
David Lynch’s movie, Eraserhead has been one of the most mysterious and confusing movies of all times. It is a surreal horror production that gained both a lot of hate and respect for Lynch since those who found the movie good actually loved Lynch art, but those who did not understand it claimed it was a waste of time both for the producers and the viewers. Released in March 1977, the movie was a whole Lynch creation -he produced in, directed it, wrote the script, designed the dvd packaging, and composed the music with extreme care and patience that took him more than 5 years developing the project.
The plot of the movie, or rather the sequence of interconnected actions in the movie, tells the story of Henry who is a printer living a small flat in the city. He marries a girl that has a strange, abnormally deformed baby who looks more like an alien creature than like a humanoid. However, Henry looks after the child after the mother runs away and this is when the strangest part of the movie comes in place. The main character goes to a variety of situations that the human mind cannot logically connect -his dreams merge with the reality (or rather the surreal world that Lynch created), factory workers are presented as organisators of social and natural order, people have no names but different expressions to define them. A mixture of bloody horror, satire, ugliness and abnormally unacceptable situations domite throughout the whole film till its end that, logically, thousands of poeple did not and will not comletely understand. And probably that was the idea of the author -noone to understand its original thought but everyone to invent an idea of the movie by himself.
The music of the movie is in a remarkable coexcistance with the actions in the movie, with both dramatic and slow swithes of the melody thus attracting even more the viewr’s attention. This made the soundtrack of the film Lynch’s favourite and most admired soundtrack among his for many film lovers and fans.
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